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Spontaneous bilateral carotid and vertebral artery dissection presenting as a Collet-Sicard syndrome
J H Rees1, A R Valentine, J G Llewelyn
1National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK.
The British Journal of Radiology
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
Spontaneous dissection of the internal carotid arteries usually presents with unilateral headache, neck pain, focal ipsilateral cerebral ischaemic symptoms and a Horner's syndrome. Lower cranial nerve palsies are only rarely observed. We report a case of carotid and vertebral dissections presenting as a unilateral palsy of the ninth to twelfth cranial nerves (Collet-Sicard syndrome).